Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though bloody, the coverage of the Chinese war by U. S. newsmen and photographers has been exceptionally good. Hearst News of the Day's H. S. Wong; Universal's George Krainukov, MARCH OF TIME's Harrison Forman's bombing pictures of Shanghai were extraordinary, as were the reels taken by Arthur Menken of the announced bombing of Nanking two months ago. Last week reckless Cameraman Menken stayed behind in Nanking to film the Japanese occupation. His films were seized and then returned by Japanese officers. A. T. ("Arch") Steele of the Chicago Daily News filed...
...cool eyewitness account of the Panay bombing and sinking, and of the passengers' flight inland. At deferred press rate of 13? a word, that 5,220-word story was a bargain, would have been worth the 73?-a-word urgent cable rate used on the hottest news "breaks." Messrs. Mayell's and Alley's films of the power-diving Japanese planes will be something to see in the U. S. next week if local police departments do not censor them as too inflammatory...
Widely reputed a pioneer user of news-style pictures in advertisements (Fleischmann, Goodrich), Mr. Getchell aims at a clientele supposedly unsatisfied by either Look or LIFE. Picture makes no attempt to create sensations or cover the news, goes in for illustrated expositions of topics like the life of a chorus girl, the dangers of lightning, "Strange Animal Diets." what happens to you in a Turkish bath, how Connecticut operates its premarital, Wassermann testing, the way to give a bum a new lease on life, how San Francisco cultivates potential artists, aged...
...week's bidding because he and Son David III had already offered orally to satisfy a $122,000 mortgage, pay $20,000 preferred claims, give general creditors 20? on the dollar. Well Mr. Stern knew the property he sought, for he was general manager of its ancestor, the News, 25 years ago, but he withdrew his oral offer last week after discovering the Sterns might have on their hands a batch of the libel suits pending against the paper, the result of Mr. O'Hara's bitter political feud. The court will protect this week...
...Richard Halliburton running them a close third. This year's audiences will hear little sex but much politics, fewer accounts of adventures in Africa but many discussions on how to make friends, how to influence people, how to conquer worry, feelings of inferiority and fear. Most astonishing news to hard-bitten lecture agents was the spectacular success of Dorothy Thompson, whose intense, nervous speeches recapitulate the ideas she dins into her daily column in the New York Herald Tribune. Giving only eight lectures at an undisclosed figure, Dorothy Thompson (Mrs. Sinclair Lewis) last week had turned down 700 invitations...